Receipt of Terminating Compensation. on Traffic to INP’ed Numbers The Parties agree in principle that, under the INP arrangements described in subsections 14.3 and 14.4 above, terminating compensation on calls to INP’ed numbers should be received by each Customer’s chosen LEC as if each call to the Customer had been originally addressed by the caller to a telephone number bearing an NPA-NXX directly assigned to the Customer’s chosen LEC. In order to accomplish this objective where INP is employed, the Parties shall utilize the process set forth in this subsection 14.5 whereby terminating compensation on calls subject to INP will be passed from the Party which performs the INP (the “Performing Party”) to the other Party (the “Receiving Party”) for whose Customer the INP is provided. 14.5.1 The Parties shall individually and collectively make commercially reasonable efforts to track and quantify INP traffic between their networks on a monthly basis, based on the CPN of each call by identifying CPNs which are INP’ed numbers. The Receiving Party shall charge the Performing Party for each minute of INP traffic at the INP Traffic Rates as specified in subsection 14.5.3 in lieu of any other compensation charges for terminating such traffic, except as provided in subsection 14.5.
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Samples: Interconnection Agreement, Interconnection Agreement, Interconnection Agreement
Receipt of Terminating Compensation. on Traffic to INP’ed Numbers ON TRAFFIC TO INP'ED NUMBERS The Parties agree in principle that, under the INP arrangements described in subsections 14.2 and 14.3 and 14.4 above, terminating compensation on calls to INP’ed INP'ed numbers should be received by each Customer’s 's chosen LEC as if each call to the Customer had been originally addressed by the caller to a telephone number bearing an NPA-NXX directly assigned to the Customer’s 's chosen LEC. In order to accomplish this objective where INP is employed, the Parties shall utilize the process set forth in this subsection 14.5 whereby terminating compensation on calls subject to INP will be passed from the Party (the "Performing Party") which performs the INP (the “Performing Party”) to the other Party (the “"Receiving Party”") for whose Customer the INP is provided.
14.5.1 The Parties shall individually and collectively make commercially reasonable best efforts to track and quantify INP traffic between their networks on a monthly basis, based on the CPN of each call by identifying CPNs which are INP’ed INP'ed numbers. The Receiving Party shall charge the Performing Party for each minute of INP traffic at the INP Traffic Rates as Rate specified in subsection 14.5.3 in lieu of any other compensation charges for terminating such traffic, except as provided in subsection 14.5.
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Samples: Interconnection Agreement (Focal Communications Corp)